We don’t need to discuss if they should or should not be planing botlane, but if riot did want to force mages bot what would be the way to do it?
Specifically what can be done to mages or the systems around them that do not directly affect their ability to lane into assassins?
Mid has level scaling as its primary benefit, and boot upgrade as its second. But if you hit their numbers and just give it back with levels then they are losing even harder into assassins. Would it be to move power out of their items and compensate the boot upgrade? Maybe better level scaling on items so mage items themselves motivate you to play mid? But that ends up hitting mage supports like xereth and lux as
